yum problem glibc x86_64

[Neal D. Becker]

seth vidal wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 22:40 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> 
>> I *still* haven't convinced yum to update my x86_64.  The complaint is:
>> Unable to satisfy dependencies
>> Package samba needs samba-common = 0:3.0.2a, this is not available.
>> Package xorg-x11-libs needs xorg-x11-libs-data =
>> 0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.9, this is not available.
>> Package glibc needs glibc-common = 2.3.3-18, this is not available.
>> 
>> I think maybe I can guess what's the problem.  There is both an i686 and
>> an
>> x86_64 version.  I'm guessing yum wants to update the x86_64 version
>> only,
>> since this is an x86_64 arch.  If my guess is correct, then this is a
>> problem we should resolve.  I wish you could tell yum to update a
>> specific
>> rpm version/arch, at least I could workaround the problem that way.  Of
>> course, a real solution would be even better.  Or, perhaps my guess is
>> just wrong, but it's a pretty good theory.
>> 
> 
> yum update foo.i386
> yum update bar.x86_64
> 
> try that. That should work on anything labeled yum 2.0.7 from fedora
> rawhide devel.
> 
> it was put in specifically for the case of multilib machines being
> goofy. :)
> 

You mean like this?

sudo yum -c yum.conf update glibc.i686
Cannot find any package matching glibc.i686 available to be updated.
No actions to take

ls /var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-*
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-0-2.3.3-22.i386.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-0-2.3.3-22.i686.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-0-2.3.3-22.x86_64.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-common-0-2.3.3-22.i386.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-common-0-2.3.3-22.x86_64.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-debuginfo-0-2.3.3-22.i386.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-debuginfo-0-2.3.3-22.i686.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-debuginfo-0-2.3.3-22.x86_64.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-debuginfo-common-0-2.3.3-22.i386.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-devel-0-2.3.3-22.i386.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-devel-0-2.3.3-22.x86_64.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-headers-0-2.3.3-22.i386.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-headers-0-2.3.3-22.x86_64.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-kernheaders-0-2.4-8.45.i386.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-kernheaders-0-2.4-8.45.x86_64.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-profile-0-2.3.3-22.i386.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-profile-0-2.3.3-22.x86_64.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-utils-0-2.3.3-22.i386.hdr
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/glibc-utils-0-2.3.3-22.x86_64.hdr